TDSS... is an example of a particularly pernicious type of rootkit that infects the master boot record of a PC.
I've seen some BIOS versions that can write-protect the MBR. Perhaps this should be more widely used. I can verify that these TDSS rootkits are a bitch to remove.
Alureon patches the Windows Boot Configuration Data to make the machine think that what's loading is Windows PE, rather than a normal version of Windows, which prevents code integrity checks from being performed.
If this rootkit is just flipping a few bits to spoof the Windows version, surely Microsoft can implement a more sophisticated way of checking what version of Windows is booting up.
I've always been amused by how sports reporters vary the verb used to describe a win. They can't just keep saying "Team A beat Team B" over and over, so they mix it up, based on how wide the score was. For a win with a small margin, they might say "Detroit edged Ottawa", or "The Rangers slid past the Ducks". For a large margin, perhaps "The Coyotes pummeled the Blues". I give extra credit if the verb matches the subject, as in "So-and-so doused the Flames".
I think it would be a lot of fun to write a program for this.
I did not mean to imply that such technology is good for uploading video, using VOIP, (or seeding torrents for that matter). And the model I described DOES reflect reality for many users. Web browsing and e-mail are the most commonly used applications by far. This technology is still useful for people in rural areas where better alternatives are not available. People either live with the slowness of e-mailing large attachments or they choose not to do so, but they can still attain a decent web browsing experience.
It's bidirectional, but heavily lopsided. (Hence the "A" in "ADSL"). With web browsing, for example, tiny amounts of uploaded data (such as mouse clicks) trigger large downloads of data (such as a page full of images). I recall seeing hybrid systems in the past that used a dial-up connection for the tiny upload portion in parallel with a satellite receiver for the download portion.
That said, I think the solution to handling non-payers is to inform their Homeowners Insurance and/or mortgage holder about the requirement.
BINGO! You nailed it right there. Something similar actually happened to me recently. While on summer vacation, I let a homeowner's insurance bill go unpaid for a couple of weeks. When I came home, I found out that the insurance company had tried to deliver a registered letter cancelling my insurance. The interesting thing is that I got a letter from the mortgage holder shortly thereafter asking for proof that I was still insured. The insurance company has evidently notified the mortgage company.
So where firefighting service is "optional", the fire department should inform the homeowner's insurance company about any homeowner who refuses coverage. The insurance company would either require coverage or raise premiums. If there is a mortgage on the home and insurance lapsed, there is likely no way the homeowner could keep the house and still refuse to pay for firefighting service.
Welcome to Slashdot, where people are too lazy to read the summaries, never mind the articles, and restating a sentence from the summary gets modded +5 Informative.
NAT is not problematic because 65K ports is insufficient. It's problematic because some protocols are inherently incompatible with NAT. FTP in active mode, for example, runs into problems with NAT traversal because it uses randomly selected ports, and that's when only the client is behind NAT. If both the FTP server and client are behind NAT, the protocol is broken completely and some sort of proxy or ALG will be required.
There are other examples of widely-used protocols that have trouble with NAT traversal. Anything involving randomly selected inbound ports is potentially problematic.
I'm not suggesting it's a clone, but that BSD is a link in the chain. Even if farther back than NextSTEP, is it not a part of "the origins"?
On a subjective level, I've never been extremely comfortable doing technical support in a purely graphical environment. Having little hands-on experience with OS X, I sometimes struggle to locate a feature or setting that I know must be there. If I drop into a Terminal session, however, things appear somewhat familiar. At this level, the Unix heritage of OS X seems apparent to me.
if you like what you're watching, you're less likely to notice the difference in video quality
The fact that people don't care about video quality if they're enjoying the subject matter was proven irrefutably when people paid to purchase Paris Hilton's infamous sex tape(s).
Don't be naive. If encryption approached "Facebook levels of popularity", governments who want to monitor your traffic will simply make encryption illegal. Look at what's happening right now with Blackberry in the U.A.E.
Years ago my father got his first answering machine. Around the same time telemarketers started using recorded sales pitches. I recall listening to an incoming call on the answering machine from a recorded telemarketer and thinking how bizarre the world had become. Their idiotic machine was talking to our idiotic machine and trying to sell it something.
Don't pull shit out of the book you wrote for the class and made students buy.
I'll go one further. Don't write your own textbook and make students buy it. When I was at university, this was a sure sign that the textbook was going to suck ass.
A heavily tattooed student was found with notes written on his arm. He had blended them into his body art.
This guy simply tried to obscure non-permanent notes amongst his tattoos. However, I think that if someone were to have notes or formulas actually tattooed on, it should not be considered cheating. The knowledge would be carried with them as permanently and accurately as if they carried it in their brain. Probably even more so.
They disincentivize ignorance and stupidity by making it more painful...
Ya, because stupid people actively choose to be stupid.
For the incentives.
While you're enlightening us all on how stupidity and ignorance should disappear with a little effort on the part of the affected, why don't you give us your similar insights into how homelessness and unemployment would be fixed if people just tried harder to get jobs?
Pull your head out of your ass and take a good look around. This is human society, full of stupid people, lazy people, gullible people, criminals, con artists, victims, etc. Rationalizing about how you think people should be is not insightful. It's naive.
I'm not sure why, but I find the thought of that more unsettling than most outlandish fetishes I've heard of. The mind-bending backwardness of it makes it seem somehow more "wrong".
It also suggests the possibility of a new porn genre - "irony porn".
Arrested by "a task force of around 50 police officers"?
Can you picture a force of 50 officers coming to arrest one person? The need for "security" has become so overdone since 911 it's beyond ridiculous. 50 officers is not a "task force". It's a fucking ARMY. No bloody wonder that Canada has spent over a BILLION DOLLARS on security for the G20 summit. What an incredible waste.
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TDSS ... is an example of a particularly pernicious type of rootkit that infects the master boot record of a PC.
I've seen some BIOS versions that can write-protect the MBR. Perhaps this should be more widely used. I can verify that these TDSS rootkits are a bitch to remove.
Alureon patches the Windows Boot Configuration Data to make the machine think that what's loading is Windows PE, rather than a normal version of Windows, which prevents code integrity checks from being performed.
If this rootkit is just flipping a few bits to spoof the Windows version, surely Microsoft can implement a more sophisticated way of checking what version of Windows is booting up.
I've always been amused by how sports reporters vary the verb used to describe a win. They can't just keep saying "Team A beat Team B" over and over, so they mix it up, based on how wide the score was. For a win with a small margin, they might say "Detroit edged Ottawa", or "The Rangers slid past the Ducks". For a large margin, perhaps "The Coyotes pummeled the Blues". I give extra credit if the verb matches the subject, as in "So-and-so doused the Flames".
I think it would be a lot of fun to write a program for this.
I did not mean to imply that such technology is good for uploading video, using VOIP, (or seeding torrents for that matter). And the model I described DOES reflect reality for many users. Web browsing and e-mail are the most commonly used applications by far. This technology is still useful for people in rural areas where better alternatives are not available. People either live with the slowness of e-mailing large attachments or they choose not to do so, but they can still attain a decent web browsing experience.
It's bidirectional, but heavily lopsided. (Hence the "A" in "ADSL"). With web browsing, for example, tiny amounts of uploaded data (such as mouse clicks) trigger large downloads of data (such as a page full of images). I recall seeing hybrid systems in the past that used a dial-up connection for the tiny upload portion in parallel with a satellite receiver for the download portion.
Yes, that's part of the glory of that quote.
Don't you mean "gloriosity"?
"obtusery" is not a word.
I read it as the entire device (launcher and projectile) weighing 3.5 kg, not the projectile itself.
That said, I think the solution to handling non-payers is to inform their Homeowners Insurance and/or mortgage holder about the requirement.
BINGO! You nailed it right there. Something similar actually happened to me recently. While on summer vacation, I let a homeowner's insurance bill go unpaid for a couple of weeks. When I came home, I found out that the insurance company had tried to deliver a registered letter cancelling my insurance. The interesting thing is that I got a letter from the mortgage holder shortly thereafter asking for proof that I was still insured. The insurance company has evidently notified the mortgage company.
So where firefighting service is "optional", the fire department should inform the homeowner's insurance company about any homeowner who refuses coverage. The insurance company would either require coverage or raise premiums. If there is a mortgage on the home and insurance lapsed, there is likely no way the homeowner could keep the house and still refuse to pay for firefighting service.
Welcome to Slashdot, where people are too lazy to read the summaries, never mind the articles, and restating a sentence from the summary gets modded +5 Informative.
NAT is not problematic because 65K ports is insufficient. It's problematic because some protocols are inherently incompatible with NAT. FTP in active mode, for example, runs into problems with NAT traversal because it uses randomly selected ports, and that's when only the client is behind NAT. If both the FTP server and client are behind NAT, the protocol is broken completely and some sort of proxy or ALG will be required.
There are other examples of widely-used protocols that have trouble with NAT traversal. Anything involving randomly selected inbound ports is potentially problematic.
... not everything in this country has to be defined by reference to London.
In Canada, we define everything in your country by reference to Reading.
e.g. "I was in London, which is about 36 miles east of Reading".
True fact.
I'm not suggesting it's a clone, but that BSD is a link in the chain. Even if farther back than NextSTEP, is it not a part of "the origins"?
On a subjective level, I've never been extremely comfortable doing technical support in a purely graphical environment. Having little hands-on experience with OS X, I sometimes struggle to locate a feature or setting that I know must be there. If I drop into a Terminal session, however, things appear somewhat familiar. At this level, the Unix heritage of OS X seems apparent to me.
A "look back at the origins of OS X", and the acronym BSD doesn't appear even once in the article. WTF?
What if you want to watch a movie on BluRay?
Then there are the people who think their every stray thought is worth a Facebook status update. Well, it isn't.
Agreed. That's what Twitter is for.
if you like what you're watching, you're less likely to notice the difference in video quality
The fact that people don't care about video quality if they're enjoying the subject matter was proven irrefutably when people paid to purchase Paris Hilton's infamous sex tape(s).
Don't be naive. If encryption approached "Facebook levels of popularity", governments who want to monitor your traffic will simply make encryption illegal. Look at what's happening right now with Blackberry in the U.A.E.
Rogers not only has bandwidth concerns. They also operate a chain of movie rental stores. Netflix poses a dual threat to Rogers.
Years ago my father got his first answering machine. Around the same time telemarketers started using recorded sales pitches. I recall listening to an incoming call on the answering machine from a recorded telemarketer and thinking how bizarre the world had become. Their idiotic machine was talking to our idiotic machine and trying to sell it something.
Don't pull shit out of the book you wrote for the class and made students buy.
I'll go one further. Don't write your own textbook and make students buy it. When I was at university, this was a sure sign that the textbook was going to suck ass.
A heavily tattooed student was found with notes written on his arm. He had blended them into his body art.
This guy simply tried to obscure non-permanent notes amongst his tattoos. However, I think that if someone were to have notes or formulas actually tattooed on, it should not be considered cheating. The knowledge would be carried with them as permanently and accurately as if they carried it in their brain. Probably even more so.
They disincentivize ignorance and stupidity by making it more painful...
Ya, because stupid people actively choose to be stupid. For the incentives.
While you're enlightening us all on how stupidity and ignorance should disappear with a little effort on the part of the affected, why don't you give us your similar insights into how homelessness and unemployment would be fixed if people just tried harder to get jobs?
Pull your head out of your ass and take a good look around. This is human society, full of stupid people, lazy people, gullible people, criminals, con artists, victims, etc. Rationalizing about how you think people should be is not insightful. It's naive.
there also appears to exist burqa fetishists.
I'm not sure why, but I find the thought of that more unsettling than most outlandish fetishes I've heard of. The mind-bending backwardness of it makes it seem somehow more "wrong".
It also suggests the possibility of a new porn genre - "irony porn".
Arrested by "a task force of around 50 police officers"?
Can you picture a force of 50 officers coming to arrest one person? The need for "security" has become so overdone since 911 it's beyond ridiculous. 50 officers is not a "task force". It's a fucking ARMY. No bloody wonder that Canada has spent over a BILLION DOLLARS on security for the G20 summit. What an incredible waste.